Woven figured fabric



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J. .ZIMBRMANN WOVEN FIGURED PABRIG;

1 M .m 0 o @u drawings, in which- I 7 UNITED lSTATES PATENT @innenv AJOHN ZIMERMANN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

WOVEN FIGURED FABRIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters :Patent N o. 567,286, dated September 8, 1896.

Application filed March 26, 1896. Serial No. 584,957. (Specimens.)

.T0 all whom it may concer-n.-

Be-it known that I, JOHN ZIMERMANN, a' citizen ofthe United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Two-Face Woven Figured Fabrics, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to woven figured fabrics having a similar figure on both sides of the fabric, and is'adapted for furniture-covers, curtains, carpets, rugs, and for general upholstery purposes. p

The essential features of my invention consist in the combination and arrangement of two figuring warp-threads, each alternate thread of a contrasting color, two fine binder warp-threads, one thread for each face, at least four figuring weft-threads, and two stuffer and binder weft-threads in a weave, the wefts divided and arranged in three weftplanes, as illustrated in the accompanying Figure lis a diagram showing two figuring warp-threads, two binder warp-threads, two stuffer weft-threads, and six figuring weftthreads in a set. Fig. 2 is a diagram showing four figuring weft-threads in the center between each two binder weft-threads. Fig. 3 is a diagram showing only four figuring weft-threads in a weave.

Similar reference letters or numerals indicate same thread in all figures;

A and B represent the figuring warp-v threads. These threads I prefer to be of two- Y ply untwisted yarn.V A is supposed to be white and B black in color. These iiguring warp-threads are operated by a Jacquard machine. i

C and D represent the binder warp-threads. These threads I prefer to be of fine yarn and of a color as will show but little when binding the figuring-wefts. vThese binder warpthreads may be operated by the jacquardor they maybe drawn in two heddles and controlled by a harness-motion.

l, 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7 representflguring weftthreads. These weft-threads may each be of a different color or two or more wefts in each weave of the same color.

4 and 8 represent the binder weft-threads.

,These weft-threads may be each of same color or they may be in the gray, as they do not showin any part of the figures on either side of the fabric, being buried in the center of the cloth.

rlhe Wefts are controlled by a shuttle-box motion as will operate pick and pick and control froin six to fourteen shuttles. In diagram Fig. 2 fourteen shuttles may be used; 6o in Fig. 3 six shuttles, working pick and pick.

The diagrams are each divided by dotted lines into`a series of six weaves.

The order in which the weft-threads are shot into the cloth may be in such order as will best suit the operations of the Jacquard machine; but the iiguring-wefts l, 2, and 3 must be shot in before the binder-weft 4; then the other iiguring-wefts 5, 6, and '7; then the binder-weft S.

When a great variety of shading in the figure is called for, I use twelve or more'figuring-wefts in a weave, as shown in Fig. 2, eight of these wefts being always buried in the center of the fabric. '7 5 When but little shading is required in the ligure, four iiguring-wefts only are` used, as shown in Fig. 3.

The figuring warp-threads eachbeing of a contrasting color may by the Jacquard ma- 8o chine be changed from either face of the cloth and shot over by the figuring-wefts. The two combined, if of one color, will produce a ground of one color. If the warpthread and weft-thread be of a different color, 8 5 the two mixed produce a shaded color. If desired, the guring warp-threads may be wovenon the faces of the fabric, as is shown at E.

One who is a weaver of ordinary skill and 9o familiar with the operations of the Jacquard machine and pick-and-pick shuttle-box motions will know that by my improved weave I can weave and produce a like figure on both sides of the fabric, only different in color and 9 5', shades, and which fabric may be highly ornamented in -colors and shades of colors by this new weave, making asolid homogeneous fabric.

Any kind of yarn may be used, either of Ioo vegetable or animal fibers 5 also mineral (bul lion may be used for ornamentation.

to and around a staffer weft-thread at the center plane, and then returning to the plane from Which they started, binding and holding the two faces together, the figuring warp threads, and figuring weft-threads making similar woven figures on both sides of the fabric; different only in color, substantially as shown and described.

JOHN ZIMERMANN.

Witnesses:

JOHN SHINN, C. CAMERON. 

